Edward Boyden | |
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 Boyden at the MIT McGovern Institute | |
| Born | August 18, 1979 |
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| Awards | Perl-UNC Prize (2011) IET A F Harvey Prize (2011) The Brain Prize (2013) Breakthrough Prize in Life Sciences (2016) Gairdner Foundation International Award (2018) Rumford Prize (2019) National Academy of Sciences (2019) Warren Alpert Foundation Prize (2019) Wilhelm Exner Medal (2020) |
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| Thesis | Task-specific neural mechanisms of memory encoding (2005) |
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Edward S. Boyden is an American neuroscientist and entrepreneur at MIT. He is the Y. Eva Tan Professor in Neurotechnology, and a full member of the McGovern Institute for Brain Research.[1] He is recognized for his work on optogenetics and expansion microscopy. Boyden joined the MIT faculty in 2007, and continues to develop new optogenetic tools as well as other technologies for the manipulation and analysis of brain structure and activity.[2] He received the 2015 Breakthrough Prize in Life Sciences.[3]
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